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English
Etymology
From Latin semper (“always”) + virēns, present participle of vireō (“be green”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
sempervirent (not comparable)
- Evergreen.
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 408:A boxwood-lined path, presided over by a nostalgic-looking sempervirent sequoia (which American visitor mistook for a ‘Lebanese cedar’ – if they remarked it at all) took them to the absurdly misnamed rue du Mûrier
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin semper (“always”) + virēns, present active participle of vireō (“be green”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
sempervirent m or f (masculine and feminine plural sempervirents)
- (botany) evergreen
- Synonym: perennifoli
- Antonyms: decidu, caducifoli
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